Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-01
THE EAST.

CORNELL University lost the Fisk-Mc-
Graw lawsuit, which involved the validity
of legacies amounting to over 81, 600, 600.
THE threatened trouble over wages in the
Pennsylvania coke region has been averted
by compromise.
! THOMAS MCDONALD was killed on the
railroad two miles west of Binghamton, N
r., the other night. He was an old soldier
aged sixty-fve, and was going from the
Home at Bath to visit his sister in New Jer-
sew.
THE New York Tribune recently charged
that Comptroller Durham had been care
less in auditing accounts for surveys in
California and that claims had been certl-
fled by HIM after having once been paid.
Durham denied the charges.
A. j. VANDERPooL, the noted New York
lawyer, dropped dead in the streets of
Paris OF apoplexy on the 22d..
A RIOT occurred at Glen Lyon, near
Nanticoke, Pa, on the 21st due to an at
attempt to enforce the Sunday law. Miners
of all nationalities attacked the posse sent
for the purpose and pandemonium reigned
Sixty persons were seriously hurt, some
fatally.
The committee investigating the Ward
Island Insane Asylum mismanagement
placed the blame on the Board of Charities
and Board of Apportionment.
TROUBLE was reported in the ranks of the
Brooklyn Ancient Order of Hibernians on
account of Division No. inviting DR.. Nc
Glynn to deliver lecture
HENRY s. IVES has been required by the
Court of Common Pleas of New York to
produce his missing books.
The Edwards Manufacturing Company,
of Augusta, Me-, recently closed it's mill
except the weaving department, there being
an over-production Of yarn. Four hundred
men were thrown out of employment.
THEODORE G. TOMLINsoN, who was prom
inent In the Henry Clay campaign in the
homestead legislation and with Peter Coop
er in the anti-monopoly movement, died
suddenly at New York on the 22d.
p. E. TARPY, of New York City, has been
appointed superintendent of the Indian
training school at Grand junction, COL
vice w. j. Davis. resigned.
THE Cincinnati express on the Panhandle
jumped the track fifty-fve miles west of
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 23d, and went over
an embankment. The engineer was fatally
scalded and two other trainmen seriously
injured.
THE Chicago & Alton railroad, one of the
roads boycotted by the trunk lines on ac-
count of paying commissions, ON the oath
began placing tickets in the hands of
brokers IN New York State, through whom
war will be waged. The Rhode Island and
other boycotted roads were expected to
follow the example.
OENEhAI- JOHN BLACK. commissioner
OF Pensions, guest of the New Hamp-
shire veterans, was reported quite i'll with
infammatory rheumatism at the residence
of Hon. StilSon Hutchins at Weirs, N H
on the oath.
GRovEsTEIN & FELL, stock brokers of
New York, made an assignment on the
24th. Assets and liabilities not stated.
w. A. GILKINs, lumber dealer and boat
owner of Kittaning, Pa. has made an as
signment with unknown assets and liabili-
ties. He is rated at 100000
The New York and Brooklyn crockery
dealers have take steps to put a stop to the
selling below cost and giving away of
crockery by tea dealers.
PHILIP CONNELL and two Hungarian
trackmen were killed on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad near Scranton, Pa, the other day
They had stepped OF one track to avoid
train, when an extra came along the other
way.
CAPTAIN JAMES p. MURPHY, one of the
oldest and wealthiest citizens of Kittaning,
Pa, was struck by the Buffalo express on
the Allegheny Valley railroad, the other
morning, and instantly killed Captain
Murphy was born in 1876, aud resided in
Armstrong County, Pa, nearly all his life.
TERRIBLE excitement was caused in the
fatal No shaft at Nantlcoke, Pa, on the
25th by the breaking away Of the earth bar
riers and the sudden precipitation of large
Dooy OF water into gangWay where over
300 Miners were at work The men were
rescued after great difficulty, but ninety
mules persisted.
The First National Bank of Danviile, N.
Y, has closed its doors.
AT a meeting of stonemasons of Pitts
burgh and Allegheny City on the 18th, it
was unanimously decided to leave the
Knights of Labor and go into the 1nterna-
tional Association of Bricklayers and
Stonemasons.
JUDGE POTTER has granted a stay of exc
cution in the case of Jacob Sharp, convicted
of corrupt practices In New York.